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The removal of Libby Prison from Rich- 
mond, Va., to Chicago was a project never be- 
fore equaled in the history of building moving 
and one that will not be surpassed for years to 
come. This famous old structure as a Confed- 
erate prison is too well known to need the repeti- 
tion of its history, and it is enough to state that it 
was the palace prison of the South, and during 
the late war it held more than 40,000 Union offi- 
cers and enlisted men as prisoners. The project 
of removing Libby to Chicago was thought of by 
a well-known Chicago business man who inter- 
ested a syndicate of his business associates, and 
as a result they visited Richmond in the latter 
part of 188S and took a thorough look over the 
ground. Then it was decided to purchase , 
gotiations were closed through Rawlings & Rose 
of Richmond, Va., and the syndicate, with Mr. 
W. H. Gray as treasurer, commenced to make 
arrangements for its removal. Mr. Louis M. 
Hallowell, a well-known and experienced Phila- 
delphia architect, was engaged to work on the 
spot. He made all of the working plans for 
taking the structure apart, shipping it to the cars 
and rebuilding it in Chicago. The work com 
menced in December, 1S88, and as the building 
was taken apart each board, beam, timber and 
block of stone was numbered and lettered in 
such a manner that there was not the least trouble 
about placing these parts correctly together again 
in rebuilding. The contract'for hauling the ma- 
terial was given to the Chesapeake & Ohio Rai - 
road Company, which kept box cars on the York 
River side-track near the building, and as soon 
as a carload was ready for shipment it was sealed 
and sent on its way to Chicago. This required 
132 twenty-ton cars. In the meantime the mass- 
ive stone wall of artesian stone, quarried within 
the city limits of Chicago, had been erected on 
the Wabash Avenue front of the Chicago lot, and 
after the completion of this the re-erection of 
Libby Prison commenced and was completed 
early in September. The Museum was opened 
to the public September 21st, 1889, and the pa- 
tronage of the institution from that date to the 
present time demonstrates that the enterprise of 
Chicago's business men who took hold of this 
project is appreciated, and that the Libby Prison 



War Museum is a place well worth visiting 
Notwithstanding the fact that the old prison is 
filled with thousands of relics of the late war, new- 
ones are being added every day, and in the near 
future this museum wiil Lie second to none in this 
country. One of the most interesting and im- . 
portant points about the exhibit in this building 
is the fact that it contains the most complete and 
valuable collection of Confederate relics in 

:ce. The present officers of the Libby Prison 
War Museum Association are C. F. Gunther, 
President; L. Manasse, Vice-President; C. E. 
Kremer, Secretary and Treasurer. Directors: 
S. II. >. ; L. Gould, Fred. S. 

Eames, W. H. Gray. Manager, Chas. R. Mac 
loon. 

<#n ff^e (prison ^/ctrcj. 

As the visitor passes through the arch under 
the massive stone battlement walls the old prison 
comes into view, and there it stands just as it 
stood in the capitol city of the Confederacy dur- 
ing the war of 1S61-1865. It stood in that city at 
tin- corner of Carey and Twentieth streets, the 
rear part of the building facing on the James 
River canal, which was parallel with the river that 
bears the same name. The building measures 
132 feet on the front, no feet on the side, is three 
stories high at the front and four stories at the 
rear. It contains about 900,000 imported brick. 
During the war it was guarded on the outside by 
a few patrolling guards, and a mounted battery 
always ready for action. Any prisoner that took 
the liberty of appearing at any of the windows 
did so at the peril of his life, for strict orders had 
been given by Major Thomas P. Turner that all 
prisoners should keep away from the windows, 
and the guards were ordered to first give a warn- 
ing to any prisoner caught looking through these 
barred openings and if the warning was not 
heeded to shoot the prisoner on the spot. Many 
a poor prisoner with the hope of obtaining a 
breath of fresh air or a glimpse of the outer 
world thus lost his life. The prison as it now 
stands does not deviate an inch from its original 
proportions. 

It has been the aim of the management to 
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eresting place, in keeping with the interior of the 
old structure, and toward this aim a number of 
he larger relics have been placed on exhibition 
here. Along the front of the building is a line o 
heavy cannon, such as were used on board some 
of the war ships and in some of the land fortifi- 
cations during the war. With these are some 
specimens of shot and shell and the appliances 
(shell tongs) used in handling them. 

i)ecfion of? a ©Neater S&atteri), 

At the right of the stairway leading to the en- 
trance of the prison is a battle-scarred section of 
one of the water batteries, used on the Potomac 
River during the war for the protection of earth- 
works. This section consists of five iron plates, 
each one inch in thickness, and when used was 
backed up by two solid feet of oak. There is 
imbedded in the center of this section a solid 
iron shot weighing 250 pounds, and to the right 
of this there is also embedded a conical steel 
shot. These are estimated to have been fired 
from a distance of one mile. This section weighs 
8,000 pounds. 

©J\ f^efic of? tfte Memmae, 

Just at the left of the entrance these is also one 
of the plates that formed the slanting roof of the 
Confederate ironclad Merrimac, which so quick- 
ly sunk the Cumberland (Union sloop of war) 
March 8, 1862. The same afternoon the Merri- 
mac easily destroyed the frigate Congress. At 
sunset that day the Merrimac, the first ironclad 
of the Confederate service, returned to Norfolk 
awaiting, the next day, an easy victory over the 
remainder of the Union fleet. All was delight 
and anticipation among the Confederates; all 
was dismay and dismal foreboding among the 
Federals. That night the Monitor arrived in 
harbor, and immediately prepared to meet her 
giant adversary. Early in the morning of the 
9th, the Merrimac appeared, moving toward the 
steam frigate Minnesota. Suddenly from under 
her lee the little Monitor darted out. Startled by 
the appearance of this unexpected and queer 
looking antagonist, the Merrimac poured in a 
broadside, such as had the day before destroyed 
the Congress, but the balls rattled harmlessly off 
the Monitor's turret, or broke and fell in pieces 
on the deck. Then began the battle of the iron 
ships. It was the first of the kind in the world 
After several hours of hard battling, the Merri- 
mac was forced to withdraw. On this battle 
hinged the fate of the war, for had the Merrimac 
triumphed, aided by other iron vessels then being 
built by the Confederacy, she might have de- 



stroyed the rest of the Union fleet in Hampton 
Roads, reduced Fort Monroe, prevented the 
Peninsula campaign, sailed along the coast and 
broken up the blockade, swept through the ship- 
ping at New York, opened the way for foreign 
supplies, made an egress for cotton, and perhaps 
secured the acknowledgement of the Confed- 
eracy by European nations. 

(Uorpeslo. 

On the sidewalk in front of the prison is a large 
iron torpedo, picked up in Mobile Bay by Ad- 
miral Farragut. It had been placed there by the 
Confederates for the purpose of destroying Union 
war ships. 

Si>ra<£>KS> (iannort, 

The 1,700-pound brass cannon mounted on the 
carriage at the left of the entrance was one of the 
best guns the Confederates owned. It is a. 32- 
caliber gun, and was captured at Mobile by Ad- 
miral Farragut. 

eJ\rm&l"rong (SjjUn (Carriage. 

This interesting old relic was recently received 
from the park at the Washington Navy Yard. It 
was captured at Fort Fisher, N. C, and weighs 
3,610 pounds with the chassis, or slide. It 
mounted an Armstrong rifled gun of 150-pound 
caliber, and thus mounted was a terror to all 
Union war ships that approached Fort Fisher in 
the search or chase for blockade runners. This 
carriage was presented to Jefferson Davis by Sir 
William Armstrong, manufacturer and inventor, 
of England. 

(Hfte CI)ofum6iac} Sjun. 

In the open space at the right of the building 
is a Columbiad gun, one of the largest and most 
celebrated in the Confederate navy, ''his gun 
was in service on board the war-ship " Palmetto 
Tree," and upon the evacuation of Charleston 
was thrown overboard rather than let it fall into 
the hands of the Federal forces. It has re- 
mained at the bottom of Charleston harbor since 
1865 until 1891, when it was raised for the Libby 
Prison museum. It was procured (or this mu- 
seum through the kindness of Mr. )ohn II. Oet- 
gen, of Charleston, S. C. 

diftieago iJire S^ePic. 

I ust south of the building is the most interest- 
ing relic of the Chicago fire (1871) extant. It is 
from the ruins of Miller & Keep's hardware store, 
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Temple, State and Randolph streets. The relic 
s a solid mass of molten iron, brass, copper and 
other metals, and in some places it shows where 
whole kegs of nails were melted together. It 
was found when the excavations were being 
made for the Masonic Temple, 1891. 

(Ufte (Sjreaf Jputr^am diftain. 
(a special exhibit.) 

This is a section of the great iron chain 
stretched across the Hudson river, at the nar- 
rows between West Point and Fort Constitution, 
by General Israel Putnam in 1776, during the 
Revolutionary War, to prevent the British vessels 
from passing up the river. This section consists 
of eighteen links and forms one of the special 
exhibits. The links made of iron bars 2K 
inches square, average in length a little more than 
2 feet, and weigh about 150 pounds each. The 
chain was stretched across the river at its nar- 
rowest point between the rocks, just below the old 
steamboat landing. It was hitched to huge 
blocks on each shore, and was buoyed up on 
very large logs about 16 feet long and pointed at 
the ends to lessen the opposition to the force of 
the current. The logs were placed at short dis- 
tances from each other, the chain carried over 
them and made fast by staples to each log. 
There were also a number of anchors dropped 
at proper distances, with cables made fast to the 

chain to give it a greater stability. This chain 
•was entirely hand-forged, and is four times as 
large as any chain manufactured to-day. It was 
made at an iron works a few miles from where 
the chain was used. The whole of the chain, 
with the exception of this section and another 
small one in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is still 
buried in the mud at the bottom of the Hudson 
River. The chain was originally 1,600 feet long. 



Confederate »:. Department 

(Ufie S^eeepfion f^pom. 

The first room that the visitor enters was the 
prisoners' reception room, where all prisoners 
were received when brought from the various 
battlefields, searched, and assigned to the vari- 
ous rooms overhead. Maj. Thomas P. Turner's 
office was in the southwest corner of the build- 
ing, just where the life-size portrait of him now 
hangs. Capt. " Dick " Turner (not a relative of 
Major Turner) had charge of the prisoners as in- 
spector and Major Turner was the commandan 
of the prison under General Winder, who had 
charge of all prisons in Richmond. Both of the 
Turners are now living. Major Turner is a 
dentist at Memphis, Tenn., and Captain Turner 
is in the lumber business at Roanoke, Va. 
Major Turner has visited this museum twice 
since its opening. 

©Jfie sJ\p]somaffbx HaSfe. 

The table upon which General Grant and 
General Lee drew up the papers for the surren- 
der of the Confederate army and the close of the 
greatest civil war the world ever knew stands 
just within the entrance of the reception room. 
This table was originally purchased by General 
Ord, who was present at the surrender, and is 
now owned by Mr. C. F. Gunther, of Chicago. 

SHOT AND SHELL. 

Near this table there is a stand of shot and 
shell that includes a specimen of almost every 
kind used during the Civil War, as well as some 
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Sir Antonio Moro's three-quarter life portrait 
of Christopher Columbus, recently purchased by 
Charles F. Gunther and plac d temporarily in 
the Libby Prison War Museum, Chicago, of 
which Mr. Gunther is President, was executed 
about 1543 or 1545 from two miniatures orignally 
done for the Court of Spain. This portrait was 
done at this court for Margaret, regent of the 
Netherlands, and the great navigator undoubt- 
edly sat for these miniatures from which it v. 
executed. The painting will be among the ex 
hibits at the Columbian Exposition. The fa t 
that it was executed for royalty is proven by the 
golden crown that surmounts and honors the 
frame. The execution of the portrait is in the 
style of the old masters, \ - and Rem- 

brandt, and is remarkable for its colouring and 
life-like appearance. The frame spoken of 
above, which was made at the same time as the 
portrait, is fully as interesting as the canvas. It 
is fashioned with superb skill and is a grand 
mass of intricate carving. It is gilded and on 
the top there is the coat-of-arms and quarterings 
of Columbus, the oyster shells, the anchor and 
the sword. 

Unusual importance and value is attached to 
this portrait from the fact that Moro was one of 
the masters of his time, and that so great and tal- 
ented an admirer as Washington Irving, after 
searching throughout Europe, and also during 
his long residence in Spain as United States 
Minister to that court, and known to be a great 
lover of Spanish history and tradition, on which 
he has written many volumes, settled upon this 
picture and placed it as a frontispiece in his re- 
vised life (1850) of Christopher Columbus. li- 
ving's search for a portrait for this purpose was 
by no means a short one. He had access to all 
the public and private libraries of the kingdom, 
which were freely opened to him, and it was 
Moro's famous work that honored that of Irving. 
The great author, in speaking of the painting, 
says : " The portrait of Columbus prefaced to 
the present volume, is from a beautiful picture 
painted by Sir Anthony Moro for Margaret, 
Governess of the Netherlands. It was brought 
to this country about the year 1590 and has been 
in possession of one family until very recently 
when it was purchased by Mr. Cribb, of King 
street, Covent Garden, London. The character- 
Jtics of the mind and features of Columbus are 



so forcibly depicted in this picture that no doubt 
can remain but that it is a true and perfect re- 
semblance of the great navigator." 

Diego Columbus, in his " Hist del Almirante 
Don Christ Colon : " The Admiral was a man 
well formed and above the middle height, his 
head was large, his cheek bones rather high, his 
cheeks neither fat nor lean, aquiline nose, his 
eyes small, light blue or gray with the white parts 
rather inflamed." Mr. Prescott says : " He had 
a majestic presence, with much dignity and at 
the same time much affability of manner." Ir- 
ving continuing says : " The description in the 
above work freely bears out the above transla- 
tion and leaves no doubt as to its identity." 

MARGARET. 

Margaret, of Parma, was regent under Philip II, 
of the Netherlands, and was the illegitimate 
daughter of Charles V and Margaret van Gest, 
wife in turn of Alessandro di Medicco, Duke of 
Florence, and Octavis Farmese, Duke of Parma, 
and Piacenza, and mother of the celebrated 
Alessandro Farniese. 

MORO'S LIFE. 

Sir Antonio Moro was born at Utrecht in 1512 
and in the early part of his life was a scholar ol 
Jan van Scorel. He afterwards went to Italy 
where he passed some time in studying the works 
of Michael Angelo and Raphael. On his return 
to Holland he devoted himself to an imitation of 
the style of Holbien, in which he was more suc- 
cessful. He was recommended to the protection 
of the Emperor, Charles V, by his countryman, 
Cardinal Granvelle and in 1552 arrived at the 
Court of Spain where Prince Philip (afterwards 
King Philip II) sat for him, and was sent into 
Portugal to paint the portrait of Philip's first 
wife, Donna Maria, where he also painted those 
of John I II. and Catharine of Austria, sister to 
Charles, which were executed so much to the 
satisfaction of the Emperor that he was two years 
afterward sent to England to paint that of Queen 
Mary, previous to her becoming the second wife 
of Philip. He returned with Philip to Spain who 
treated him with an intimacy and familiarity 
which had nearly proved fatal to him. Philip 
was accustomed to honor him with a visit when 
he was painting and in a moment of condescen- 
sion and admiration slapped him jocosely on the 
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Sir Antonio Moro's 
brush across the King's hand. The jest was 
rash and the King was not of a disposition to be 
played on with impunity. The attendant couriers 
stared with amazement but Philip passed it over 
with a smile. The artist threw himself on his 
knees, begged pardon, and everything appeared 
to be forgotten, but he was secretly advised to 
withdraw trom Spain, and he lost no time in re- 
turning to the Netherlands. The talents of Sir 
Antonio Moro were not confined to portraits. 
He painted several historical subjects for the 
royal collection in Spain, most of which perished . 
in the conflagration of the palace of the Pardo. 
He died in Antwerp. Among his better works 
are the following : 

Berlin Gallery — Three Male Portraits. 

Brunswick Gallery — The Man with the Gloves. 

Brussels Gallery — Portrait of Hubert Goltzius. 
Portrait of the Duke of Alva. 
" Portrait, Unknown. 

Dresden Gallery — Two Male Portraits. 

London National Gallery — Portrait of Jean 
d'Archel. 

London Portrait gallery— Portrait of Sir Thos. 
Gresham (One of Moro's finest works). 

Madrid Gallery — Thirteen Portraits. 

Paris, Louvre — Two Portraits. 

Petersburg, Hermitage — Portraits of Sir Thos. 
and Lady Gresham. 

Vienna, Belvedere — Portraits of Queen Mary 
and six others. 

Chicago Libby Prison Museum — Portrait of 
Columbus. 

LIFE OF COIA'M Itl'S. 

Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America, 
was born at Cogerio, twenty miles west of Genoa 



about 1435, and died at Valladolid, Spain, May 
20, 1506. lb- was' the eldest son of Domenico 
Colombo, a cloth weaver, although his ancestors 
followed the sea. At the age of ten he was sent 
to the University of Pavia and studied many of 
the sciences bearing on navigation. Entering 
the Genoese marine in 1450 he continued in it 
twenty years. In 1470 he went to Lisbon, where 
he remained until 1484, supporting himself by 
drawing charts in conjunction with his brother 
and making occasional voyages to Madeira, the 
Canaries, Azores and the Portuguese settlements 
in Africa. Columbus had by this time matured 
his views, that the earth was spherical, that Asia 
extended to the parallel now known as 180 degrees 
east from ( ireenwich, that a navigable ocean only 
intervened, and that not more than one-fourth ot 
the earth's circumference separated Europe and 
Asia. He applied for aid in finding this western 
route to India, first to the Republic of Genoa 
and subsequently to either Alfonso V. or John 
II. of Portugal. The latter was interested, but 
his council voted against helping the enterprise. 
Hopeless of success in Portugal, he set out for 
Spain with his son Diego, and while awaiting the 
result of his application for aid to Ferdinand and 
Isabella he served in the war against the Moors- 
of Grenada. Finally, with the aid of the Span- 
ish sovereigns, three small ships were fitted out 
at Palos and sailed August 3, 14(52. October iz r 
1402, after having been at sea seventy-one days, 
the " Pinta " fired a gun, the signal for land. This 
land he took possession of in the name of the 
Crown of Castile and named the island San Sal- 
vador. He also discovered others of the West 
India Islands and built on the Bay of Caracola a 
fort with the timbers of the " Santa Maria, "and 
stationing thirty men in it sailed for Spain Janu- 
ary 4, 1493, taking with him several of the natives. 
He was well received by the Spanish sovereigns,, 
confirmed in all the dignities previously bestowed 
and given command of seventeen ships and fif- 
teen hundred men to prosecute the discovery. 
With this fleet he sailed from Cadiz, September 
2 5. H93i discovered the Windward Islands, Ja- 
maica anil Porto Rico, and founded a colony at 
Hispanola, of which he left his brother Bartholo- 
mew lieutenant governor, and reached Cadiz 
June n, 1496. In 1498 he discovered the main 
land near the mouth of the Orinoco River. He 
never, however, 'lost the delusion thai il w as the 
eastern coast of Africa, and he dil d ignorant of 
the grandeur of his discovery. The discoverer 
of the New World died at the age of seventy. 
\ bout 1470, while at Lisbon, he married Felipa, 
a daughter of Bartholomew di Palestrello, a dis- 
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AMONG THE SHOW CASES. 
No. 1 

Original war manuscripts of Howell Cobb, Gen. 
Beauregard, Gen. R. E. Lee, Captain Wirz, Gov. 
Shorter, of Alabama, and Gov. Peters, of Missis- 
sippi, Gov. Harris, of Tennessee, Stonewall Jack- 
son, and others. 

No. 2 

Original manuscripts of Thomas L. Snead, R. 
E. Lee, General Ruggles, Brig. -Gen. William Dun- 
can Smith, Asst. Secretary of War J. A. Campbell, 
Inspector-General Cooper, Auditor W. D. O. Tay- 
lor, Alexander H. Stevens, Vice-President of the 
Confederate States, J. C. Calhoun and others. 

No. 3 

Confederate postage stamps and an original copy 
of Southern Punch, a Richmond, Va., publication of 
1S64. Original copies of the message of the Presi- 
dent of the Confederate States of America. Original 
manuscripts of autobiographies, written by Generals 
Willis B. Machew, John T. Morgan, R. B. Garnett, 
H. A. Herbert, William Ht Forney, Thomas Monti- 
cue, W. S. Herndon and Randall L. Gibson. Orig- 
inal autographs of Confederate officers, written 
while prisoners at Johnson's Island. 

No. 4 

The last newspaper of the Confederasv, printed 
on wall paper at Yickshurg, Miss., and a copy of 
the Confederate form of prayer. Original manu- 
scripts, official documents and photographs. 

No. 5 

Confederate letters, official documents, speci- 
mens of money, certificates, etc., etc. 

No. 6 

Original appointment of a Commissioner in the 
State of Mississippi, signed by Governor J. L. 
Alcorn, also a similar paper signed by Charles I. 
Jenkins, Governor of Louisiana. A Confederate 
bond, original autographs and manuscripts. The 
revolver used during the war by Captain Henry 
Wirz, Commandant at Andersonville. 

No. 7 

Manuscripts, maps and reports. Official execu- 
tive documents of the States of Mississippi and 
Texas Original copy of the Strangers' Guide and 
Official Directory of the Confederacy, published at 
Richmond, Ya. 

No. 8 

Original autographs of Confederate officers, writ- 
ten while prisoners atjohnson's Island, giving name, 
place of capture and residence. "Good Luck" orna- 
ment made by a prisoner in Andersonville. Ring 
made from laurel root from the tree under which Col. 
Webster, son of Daniel Webster, was killed. Ex- 
quisite bone ornaments, carved in Libby Prison, by 
Lieut. J. Hull, the only tools for carving which were 
a knife blade and a piece of slate. Beautiful carved 
knives, forks and spoons made by C. H. Wilson, 4th 



Maine, at Andersonville. Ornament made by J. 
Randall, Co. D., 66th Pennsylvania, while a prisone* 
in Andersonville. 

No. 9 

Original Manuscripts of the reports of the bat- 
tles of Perry ville, Murfreesboro and Shiloh, written 
by General Hardee. Original manuscripts and bat- 
tle orders. Letters written by Stonewall Jackson, 
General Kirby Smith, General Lee, General Mosby, 
General Ransom to General Bragg, General Joseph 
E.Johnston and others, with original photographs of 
some of the writers. 

No 10 

Jeff Davis' collection. The fii st paper of interest 
in this collection is a love letter written by that cel- 
ebrated Southerner, in 1834, to Sarah Knox Taylor, 
daughter of Zach Taylor. She subsequently became 
Davis' wife. The next paper of interest is the orig- 
inal commission of Davis as an officer of the Miss- 
issippi volunteers in the Mexican war, and beside 
this is the original manuscript of Davis' report of 
the movements of his command in Mexico. Xext 
are the original credentials of Davis to Congress in 
i^t.,- Besides this is a letter written and addressed 
to the Maryland Legislature in 1S61, and next is the 
original manuscript of his proclamation placing 
Richmond under martial law. in 1S62, and then a 
message written by him, in 1863, when President of 
the Confederate States of America. President Davis' 
original order appointing G. A.Trenholm, Secretary 
of the Treasury, in place of Meminger, resigned. 
In this case is also the great seal of the Confederate 
States. 

No. 11 

Original manuscript of General Lee's accept- 
ance of the Command of the Armies of the Confed- 
erate States of America, also the original manu- 
script of his farewell address to the same. General 
J. E. B. Stuart's letter tendering his services to 
the Confederate Government. Original manu- 
script of a war report by Stonewall Jackson an- 
nouncing the advance of the enemy, also the 
same officer's acknowledgement of his appointment 
as Brigadier-General of the Confederate States 
Army. Another interesting document in this case 
is General Albert Sidney Johnston's report to the 
Adj. -Gen. of the forces at his disposal for the defense 
of Bowling Green, Ky., October 17,1X01, also an orig- 
inal manuscript of a report by Gen. J. C. Pember- 
ton. The first call for the organization of a govern- 
ment for Virginia after the evacuation of Rich- 
mond. Original manuscript of first Confederate 
bond before any were printed. Letter written by J. 
M. Mason resigning his seat in the convention. 
This was written just prior to his capture on the 
steamer Trent, bound for England. 

No. 12 

Confederate publications, money, maps and let- 
ters, among which is one signed by General Albert 
Sidney Johnston and another by General Pillow, of 
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No.13 

inal war orders and messages. Photogi aphs. 
An "■■ military commission to Lieut. John C. 

i 'hamberlain. In this case is a cipher telegram from 
Jeff Davis, dated at Charlotte, X. C, to B. NT. Har- 
ris: a telegram from General B lated 
Api .' his flight 
hward; 1 1 Archer Anderson, Acti 

isboro, N.( . April 
ler, and one from J 
E Johnston on the same date to General Shei m;i i. 

No. 14 

Ong ders and letters 

in the handwriting of well-known Confedei 
amoi 

( op) i I ' 1'e oath of allegiance 
to the Confederate ' Vmerica. 

No .15 

Documents from the executive department of 
the Territorj of Montana. Original letter by 
Raphael Semni irmander of tin' "Alabai 

rnor Z. B. Vance, of N 

I I'anal" <••'•■••, printed in April, 
is signed by '■ 
A. B. Mo .1. and Goveri i 

.1. Diary 
of tl Note- written by David 

Crocl 1831. 

No 16 

Original Con | mblications. Orij 

."ui the Treasury Department of 
the ■ I er written i nor Wise, 

of Virginia. Report by Fitzhugh i 
Army and Na; v Messenger, printed at Petersb 
\"a., Feb. 23, vi;. Other Confederate publications. 
Manuscript of aut \ written by Edmund 

W. M. Mac! olina. 

No. 17 

Ac. i i >t the t 'onfederate i 

Diploma from the Virginia Military Institute, 
signed l>\ Governor Wise and officers. Original 
letters by Gen.Jeff. Thompson and Gen. Dick Tay- 
lor. Coni ''.!• rate | ■ ' (fficial r 
ter (signed ami scaled with the seal of the Confedei 

ury Department \ of the schooner "I'm cev" 
jf Savannah, Ga. But few commissions of this class 
were granted. 

No. 18 

oral copies of statutes of t on federate States 
of America, and copies of the public laws as they 
were printed from time to time. Original letters by 
Gen. Beauregard, Gen. Geo. E. Pickett to Gen. 
Braxton Bragg, Gen.J. E. IS. Stuart, and others. 
Photographs, maps and Confederate songs. [N. I!. 
— On the top 01 this case rests two pieces of li ird- 
tack that defied the tooth of time, as well as thai of 
the volunteer, 1 

No. 19 

Bricks taken from the interior walls of Libby 
Prison, showingthe identical names and initials cut 
in them by the I'nion soldiers while prisoi i 



Pieces .,] fence rails taken from battle fields, show- 
ing imbedded bullets. 

No 20 

Original) and other officia\ 

and pi of 

Southrrn journal, 
Sept. 19, 1 I G. T. Beaure 

gard. 

No. 21 

Man n by 

i 
. A Coii 

I from tin 
Am 1 il liographi is in ma I . C 

But ler, John I .': .1: ion, 1 . 

Point lexter D I 111. Col • 

ib II and i 

No. 22 

• ! April 1 J, 
11111- 
110 .M \'n 
■ 

-. Auto 
biogra 1 iginal ma 

Robert E Witl I er, W. M Bobbins, 

P. M. P. ■ ihn II. R \V. 

No- 23 

Aut er, of 
Alabama P: lin by l'i 
dent Andrew derate pub ications 
and orders Corrcs] : ov. Wise, of Vir- 
ginia, and othi 1 h. A utobio- 
graphies, in 01 John 
R. Lynch. Dudley Mel Bell, Albert 

C He John M.Gloon, Sam McKe, John B. Cal- 

lis and John [Ianli . members of Con- 
gress. 

No. 24 

Thin 1 lens of Confederate cur .-ency. In- 
Vlilitar] appointments. 
War pictures. 

No. 25 

A pie< the machini . t the mint, at 

Cojumbia, S. C, for making Confederate money. 
( )riginal photogra phs, man 11 ublicationsand 

ord 1 s. 'IV timon in 1 : ■■■■■;. mu cri p1 of Gen. 
R. E. Lee, at the examination in Washington, Feb. 
17. 1866. ( 'onfederate bond and coupons. 

No 26 

1 ial orders. Confederate currency. Letter 
bj ( . ( . i lay, Jr., regarding the famous Niagara 
balls conference. Confederate newspapers, per- 
sonal letters and official documents. Autobiography 
of Gen. Morgan Bawls. 

No. 27 

Box of damaged cartridges, supposed to contain 

1,000 rounds, ('onfederate wooden canteens. War 

relics. 



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The Kitchen 

This apartment was converted into a "mess" or dining-room, and the prisoners had priv- 
ileges here for cooking and eating. It was also in this room that the Libby Prison minstrels 
held their weekly performances. 

OIL PORTRAITS, VIEWS AND RELICS 



UNION DEPARTMENT 



SOUTH WALL 
CASE No. 28 

Specimens of Guns used during the Civil War. 

Flint-lock Musket. 

Sharpshooter's Carbine. 

Colt's Repeating Rifle. 

Evans' Repeating Rifle. 

Sharpshooter's Rifle. 

Spencer Rifle. 

Breech-loading Rifle. 

Breech-loading Springfield Rifle. 

Breech -loading Rifle manufactured by Provi- 
dence Tool Co. 

Original copy of the bulletin written at the bed- 
side of General Garfield, August 30, 1881. 

CASE No. 29 

Collection of 'arms used by infantry and cavalry 
soldiers during the Civil War, and war of 1S12. 

Picture of the United States General Hospital, 
Mound City, 111. 

John A. Logan. 

Original copies of posters printed at Lynn, 
Mass., calling for volunteers. 

General Crawford. 

General Rosecrans. 

Military views and battlefield scenes in oil. 

CASE No. 30 

Original copies of old official documents, in 
eluding President Lincoln's Thanksgiving ana Fast 
Day proclamations. 

Officer's commission ir. the Indiana State militia, 

signed by Oliver P. Morton, the fa.r.cas war Gov- 
ernor. 

Original circulars and papers printed durino- 
the w2r. b 

General Zook. 

Commodore Reed. 

Fifteen oil paintings of Southern landscape 
views about the various battlefields. 

Original bulletin written at the bedside of Pres- 
ident Garfield by the attending physicians, August 
27, 1 So I. 

Commodore Gleason. 

Views in oil of Southern scenes. 

Three cases of battlefield relics found at Gettys- 
burg. J 

CASE No. 31 

Newspapers published during the war. 
New York Times, April 4, 1S61. 
Chicago Evening Journal, April 29, 1865. 



New York Tribune, May 26, 1S61. 
New York Sun, May 10, 1S65. 
Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1865. 
New York Herald, April 13 and 10, 1S61. 

Gettysburg relics. 

EAST WALL 

General Chittenden. 

General Howard. 

General Geary. 

Specimen of camp stove used by officers in the 
field for cooking and heating the tent, and brass 
naval powder measures. 

CASE No. 32 

Relics from the various battlefields. 
NORTH WALL 
CASE No. 33 

Specimens of shot and shell found on the battle- 
fields. 

General W. S. Hancock. 

General Blenker. 

General Nathaniel Lyon, the first offieer of that 
rank killed in the war. He met his death at the 
battle of Wilson Creek, Mo., August 10, 1S61. 

General Carlos Buell. 

Generai R. B. Hayes. 

Forty life studies of the great army, by Edwin 
Fo.-bes. This collection of etchings is considered 
the best of its kind ever published. 

Entrance to the tunnel through which Colonel 
Rose and 109 Union prisoners made their celebrated 
escape from this prison, February 9, 1864. 

Sectional view of Libby Prison, with its Rich- 
mond surroundings, showing the course the prison- 
crs pursued in mining their way to liberty. 

WEST WALL 
Oil Portraits 

General McDowell. 
General Geo. B. Crook. 
General Geo. H. Thomas. 
Admiral Dupont. 
General Schofield. 

Special Exhibits 

Clock of the sixteenth century. This remark- 
ably old time-piece while not containing the mech- 
anism of the clocks of modern manufacture, is a 
a remarkably accurate time keeper. 



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Shrunken Heads of Incas 

These heads arc <>f full-grown prisoners, and 
were boned and shrunken to their present size by 
the medicine men of their captors, they being- the 
Only ones in the world who Know the process. 
They are held as war trophies, and specimens are 
very ra c, owing to the fact that the government of 
Brazil and South America, in order to prevent tribal 
wars and human sacrifice, prohibit the sale, pur- 
chase or exportation of such In ads. The Incas is a 
tribe located on the Pastasso river, a tributary of the 
Amazon, in the southern part of Ecuador and north- 
ern part of Peru. The strings attached to the nose 
are made from the wool of the lama. 

Grant and Sheridan 

In the center of this room are models of the last 
marble busts of General Phil Sheridan and General 
Grant. 

AMONG THE CASES 

No. 34 

Original copies of the first telegrams sent by 
General George li. McClellan in liis West Virginia 
campaign. These are loaned by the family of Gen- 
eral Anson Stager. Splinters from the stern post of 
the " Kcarsarge," knocked off by shells tired by the 
privateer " Alabama," off Cherbourg. France. The 
'Alabama" was sunk in the action. Original copies 
of war orders and war telegrams. 

No. 35 

Stove, goose and shear; used by Andrew John- 
son while working as a tailor on the bench. The 
silk hat that was worn by him when inaugurated 
President of the United Spates. 

No. 36 

Original manuscripts of General W. S. Han- 
cock, General James A. Garfield, General Halleck, 
William G. Brownlow of Tennessee, and others. 
Specimens of currency. 

No. 37 

Specimens of army and navy buttons and bad- 
ges. Horace Greely's manuscript. Original letters 
written by Edwin M.Stanton and William II. Har- 
rison. Autographs of Major-General W. B. Frank- 
lin and others. 

No. 38 

Official documents and original letters by Gen- 
eral Grant and others. Currency of various kinds. 
Sword carried by Major -General F. L. Hagedon of 
the 70th Highlanders, New York, and later In- 
spector-General of artillery in Venezuela. Chicago 
Sanitary Fair papers <>f [865 Original letter written 
by Samuel D. Burchard, of " Ruin, Romanism and 
Rebellion" fame. 

No. 39 

Original letters written by Edwin M. Stanton, 
General Rufus Sexton, Lyman Trumbull, John M. 
Reed, General W. L. Elliott, General Neal Dow, 



Captain E. M. Sutherland, and General James B. 
McPherson. Original appointment by Presidetv; 

Johnson of Paran Stevens as United States Com- 
missioner to the Universal Expo ition at Paris. 
The document is dated March 1 ;, 1^07. Portrait of 
General Sweet, commandant of Camp Douglas. 
Original copy of h'Story of Camp Douglas, Chicago. 
A piece of the cupboard in the house at Frederic 
City, Md., from one of the windows of which Bar- 
bara Frietchie waved the Union flag before Stone- 
wall Jackson's passing forces. Autograph of Lu- 
cretia Mott, "an advocate of human rights without 
distinction or color." 

No. 40 

Quadrant, callipers and level used on Admiral 
Farragut's flagship "Hartford," when she entered 
the mouth of the Mississippi river, captured Forts 
St. Philip and Jackson, ran eighty miles of batteries 
and captured New Orleans. Specimens of the va- 
rious kinds of revolvers and pistols used during 
the war, one of particular interest being a 20-calibre 
revolver patented by Jocelyne & Woodward, but 
the only one of the kind ever made. 

No. 41 

Specimens of swords and sabers used during 
the rebellion. Sword carried by Major John Wilson 
through the war, from Fredericksburg to the sur- 
render of Appomattox. 

No. 42 

Original letters written by E. M. Stanton, 
Charles Wilkes, L. S. Douglas, John A. McLer- 
naud, David Tod, Governor of Ohio; Tunis Craven, 
killed on the ironclad "Tecumseh," in rsV'i^. Photo- 
graph of Colonel Ellsworth and officers, presented 
by Major Ncvans and a photograph of the Ells- 
worth Zouaves. Photographs and original letters 
of Lieutenant John T. Grebie, General lames G. 
Blunt, and General H. G. Wright. 

No. 43 

Original letters by Colonel Charles Elliot, Wil- 
liam II. Seward, Commodore Hiram Paulding, 
Hugh S.Leonard, William E. Chandler, Thomas 
Melvin, Jarries 1). Williams, and James Kent, the 
celebrated New York jurist. Advice written by 
George Francis Train to Dr. Bliss during President 
Garfield's illness. Map of battleground near Rich- 
mond. 

No. 44 

Rifled shell thrown and unexploded from Gen- 
eral Gilmore's "Swamp Angel" batteries into the 
city of Charleston during the siege. Pair of vases 
originally owned by U. S. Grant. 

No. 45 

Plaster cast of Charles II. Guiteau's head. 
Model of a Parrot gun, which was one of the ir.OSt 
serviceable and destructive guns used in the field 
during the war. 



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No. 46 

Orignal press that printed the orders of Gen- 
erals Thomas and Hooker at Chattanooga, and Gen- 
eral Sherman's orders during the Atlanta campaign 
and the famous march to the sea. 

No. 47 

Original letters written by Hon. S. A. Douglas, 
Hon. Alfred Ely and others. Interesting official 
documents, among which is a certificate of invention 
signed by President Andrew Johnson. Manuscript 
of a speech delivered by General U. S. Grant. 
Original manuscript of poem by William Cullen 
Bryant. Autobiography in original manuscript of 
Allan G. Thurman. Original manuscript of speech 
by Charles Sumner. 

No. 48 

The chisel used in the famous tunnel escape 
from Libby Prison, and pictures of Lieutenant Eli 
Foster, Captain Wilkins, Major B. B. McDonald, 
Colonel Streight, Captain Scarce and Lieutenant 
Sterling, who were among the 109 that escaped. 

No. 49 

Photograph of Libby Prison taken during the 
war. Piece of the bench that General Grant worked 
at while a leather cutter, at Galena, III. Pipe made 
from the knot of a tree by Colonel Ellsworth, and 
pieces of carpet taken from the Marshall House, 
Alexandria, Va., bearing the blood-sta ns of that 
brave young officer. It will be remembered that 
Colonel Ellsworth just prior to the war was in com- 
mand of the.Chicago Zouaves, which were conceded 
to be the best drilled organization in this country. 
At the outbreak of the rebellion he went to New 
York und organized the New York Fire Zouaves, 
and in command of these he proceeded into Vir- 
ginia. While entering Alexandria he espied a rebel 
flag waving from a staff on the Marshall House. 



see the great 

Cycloramic 
Painting of . . . 

— ^ -— ■ — — «^^^*^^^^— 

SHOWING GOAT ISLAND 

SUSPENSION BRIDGE 
CAVE OF THE WINDS 



Without a moment's hesitation, he entered the 
house, ascended to the roof, and started for below 
bearing the captured flag on his arm. As he reached 
the foot of the stairs a man named Jackson, propri- 
etor of the house, stepped from his room, tired at 
Ellsworth and killed him on the snot. Jackson v.-:;; 
also killed on the spot by a soldier named Urownell. 
But thus ended the life of gallant young Colonel 
Ellsworth. Original tickets to national events. 
Original copy of letter written by Charles Guiteau, 
the murderer of President Garfield. 

No. 50 

Original manuscripts of speeches bv Daniel 
Webster and Caleb Cushing, also one by Charles 
Sumner on the Trent affair. Original letters written 
by General George B. McClellan, Harriet Beecher 
Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert G. Ingersoll. 
Gener.d Joe Hooker, Colonel L. P. Bradley and 
others. Original order signed by General Sheridan, 
a bank check signed by his father, and an autograph 
by his mother. An appointment signed bv Admiral 
Farragut. 

No. 51 

Original letters of Benj. Harrison, Admiral 
Porter, Hamilton Fish, Fernando Wood, ex-mavor 
of New York; Captain R. W. Sawyer, Hon. Joshua 
B. Giddmgs, General O. O. Howard, General Rose- 
crans, William Lloyd Garrison. Colonel James A. 
Mulligan, General llawley, General Kilpatrick, 
John Hay, Geo. F. Bristow and others. Garfield 
papers. Photograph of the dead President and his 
fami y. Letters signed bv himself Original copies 
of bulletins from his bedside, written bv attending 
physicians. General Garfield lying in state. Piece 
of the rope that hung Guiteau. Letters bv R. B. 
Hayes, Lesl e Coombs, Admiral Davis and others. 
Autograph of United States District Attorney Geo. 
B Corkhill. Cluck signed by Jay Cooke & Co., for 
$200,000. German gun 275 years old, 'lowing re- 
markably fine and intricate worlr" 




IAGARA 
FALLS 



MAID OF THE MIST 
ETC., ETC. 



ALSO 



BEAUT.FUL DIORAMA OF WHIRLPOOL RAPIDS 



* 



nd realist.c SOUTHERN COTTON PICKING SCENE 



WABASH AVE. AND HUBBARD CT. OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAYS 10 TO 10 



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The Hospital 



This room, during the war, was used exclusively as a hospital, and was well supplied with 
cots in rows along fhe walls and between the posts. All ill dr wounded prisoners were cared 
for here as well as #ircumstances would permit. 



UNION DEPARTMENT 



SOUTH WALL 
CASE No. 52 

Crutches used by (Jen. Grant, at New Orleans, 
when injured by a fall. Photographs of Grant taken 
at Mt. McGregor, three days before his death. 
Photograph of Grant and staff, taken at Cold Har- 
bor, in 1S64. Original poster offering $100,000 re- 
ward for the capture of the murderers of, Abraham 
Lincoln. Original poster offering reward for the 
apprehension of Jefferson Davis. Collection of 
photographs of statesmen and military men of note. 

PORTRAITS AND VIEWS 

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. 
Sherman and his Generals. 
Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln. 
John Brown. 
Rear Admiral Dahlgren. 

Twenty-five views, in oil, of land and naval 
battles and noted battlefields. 
Wendell Phillips. 
Major-Gen. George Stoneman. 
General Kilpatrick. 
Colonel Jas. A. Mulligan. 
Charles H. Slack, engineer. 
Badges of all the corps of the Union Army. 

EAST WALL 

Major-Gen. W. T. Sherman. 
Grant and his battles. 

Freedom's Poets— Bryant, Whittier and Long- 
fellow. 

Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. 
General McClellan. 

CASE No. 53 

The first Union flag thrown to the breeze over 
Yicksburg, placed by Private Howell Tragdon. 

In this case are also specimens of shot and shell 
found on the various battlefields, including the spher- 
ical case shot, cannister, Parrot, Hotchkiss, Arm- 
strong and loose grape shot ; 12, 24 and 32-pound 
solid shot and steel shot. 

NORTH WALL 

CASE No 54 
■ napers pui iisnzdat ibe time of the assas- 
sination of President Lincoln. Cnicago Tribune, 
New York World, New York Herald, New York 
Tribune, Boston Daily Advertiser, April 15, 1865; 
New York Herald, April 17-18, 1S65, and Chicago 
Tribune, May 5, 1S65. 

Oil portrait of President Lincoln, and pictures 
of him at home and in office. 



Desk made by A. H. Andrews &• Co., of Chica- 
go, over which James A. Garfield wsis nominated for 
the Presidency of the United States, in iS Q o; James 
G. Blaine, in 18S4, and Benjamin Harrison, in 18S8. 

Library chair used by Lincoln during his occu- 
pancy of the White House. The chairs that were 
in the box at Ford's Theatre, Washington, when 
Lincoln was assassinated. Sofa from Lincoln's resi- 
dence in Springfield, III. Invalid chair, the only 
one used by General Garfield after his assassination. 

Hon. Schuyler Colfax. 

Henry Ward Beecher. 

Portraits in bronze of Mr. and Mrs. Gen. John 
A. Logan. 

Gen. P. H. Sheridan. 

General Mead. 

General Grant. 

General Grant and family. 

Abraham Lincoln. 

Edwin M. Stanton. 

Gen. W. T. Sherman. 

WEST WALL 

Engravings of tweh e noted Generals cf the Iatt 
war. 

Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. 

J. Wilkes Booth. An imperial photograph of 
the assassinator of President Lincoln. 

View of the United States Senate in 1850. 

HOSPITAL SUPPLIES 

In the centre of this room is a case containing a 
complete set of physicians' and surgeons' hospital 
supplies furnished by the government. 

AMONG THE CASES. 
No. 55 

Original Utters signed by J. Ericson, designer 
of the "Monitor," Gen. W. T. Sherman, Gen. Geo. 
G. Meade, O. P. Morton, the War Governor of 
Indiana, Gen. O. O Howard, Bayard Taylor, John 
L. Worden, U. S. N., S. A. Hurlburt, Win. Lloyd 
Garrison, Mrs. Gen. Dahlgren and Daniel Webster. 
Autographs of the Military Commission and Gen. 
Schorteld and staff. 

No. 56 

Autobiography in original manuscript of Major 
Theodore Winthrop, and manuscript of speech deliv. 
ered by Presidentjames Buchanan. Original lefers 
by Caleb B. Smith, Major-Gen. Herron, (Jen. John 
A. Logan, Colonel James A. Mulligan, President 
Andrew Johnson, William H. Herndon, Bayard 
Taylor, Gen. Wm. Hay, Chester A. Arthur, Gen. 
John A. Dix, C. P. Walcottand others. 



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No. 57 

Copy of the Philadelphia Enquirer, July 3, 1852, 
with the report of the funeral of Henry Clay. 
Original letters by Henry Clay, Hon. John I. Rina- 
ker, Hon. William M. Springer, Hon. Thomas J. 
Henderson, Hon. Scott Wike, Hon. Stephen A. 
Douglas, General Snead, Horace Greely and others. 
Copy of "America" in the handwriting of the 
author, S. F. Smith. Autobiographies of Hon. 
William E. Chandler and Thomas J. Henderson in 
original manuscript. Autograph of Rev. Joseph 
Cook, the celebrated Boston clergyman. 

No 58 

Letters and official papers of Hon. F. M. 
Cockrell, Hon. Geo. W. Julian. Hon. I. D. Cannon, 
■General George Reynolds, Admiral David D.Porter, 
Rear Admiral Theodore Bailey and Hon. Henry 
Kyd Douglas. 

No. 59 

Original letters by Hon. Amos Kendall, Hon. 
Preston King, Hon. Abner C. Harding, Hon. Edw. 
Solomon, Hon. Richard Yates, Hon. James G. 
Blaine, Hon. John T. Stewart, General Rufus Stone 
and others. Picture of Le Due de Nemours and 
letter written by Louis Philippe D'Orleans, Count 
de Paris. An original manuscript of Will Carle- 
ton's. Autograph of Charles Sumner. 

No. 60 

Original manuscript of "The American Eagle," 
•a poem by C. W. Thomson. Photograph of Gen. 
Geo. C. Strong, who was killed at Fort Wayne. 
Manuscript of poem on the murder of Col. Ells- 
worth, by R. H. Stoddard. Original letters by 
Horace Greely, and the only proof-sheet now in 
existence corrected by him. Letters written by 
Hon. Roscoe Conkling and Hon. Schuyler Colfax. 
Autograph of Josh Billings. Original manuscript 
of Horace Greely's speech at the banquet given at 
the dedication of the statue of Benj. Franklin in 
New York City. 

No. 61 

Original letters by Brig. -Gen. R. P. Brickland, 
General Winfield Scott, Generaljames B. McPher- 
son, Gen. Halleck, Gen. John F. Reynolds, General 
Geo. G. Meade, Gen. John Hay, Gen. Leonard B. 
Ross, Major-Gen. A. A. Humphreys and others. 
War telegrams sent by Gen. Halleck. Autograph 
of Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

No. 62 

Newspapers printed at the time of the Lincoln 
assassination; New York Herald, April 16, 1865; 
Washington Sunday Chronicle, April 23, 1S65 ; 
Washington Weekly Chronicle, April 22, 1S65. Illus- 
tration showing the funeral honors to President 
Lincoln, the catafalque passing up Broadway, New 
York, April 25, 1S65, in the presence of one million 
people. An official appointment signed by Presi- 
dent Lincoln in 1S61 . Letters written by President 
Andrew Johnson and General Lucius Fairchild. 



No 63 

Letters written by Hon. Samuel L. Breeze, Gen. 
Theo. J. Wood, Gen. J. J. Abercrombie and General 
Seigel. Sword originally owned by Gen. Sheridan 
and presented by him to H. T. Havvkes. Military 
appointment signed by AndrewJohnson, and letters 
by Gen. B. M. Prentiss, Gen. Neal Dow, Hon. 
Horatio Seymour, Gen. Dahlgren, General Adam 
Badeau and General R. B. Hayes. Autograph of 
Adam W. Pierson. 

NO. 64 

Copies of the Chicago Times printed September 
5th and 26th, 1S61 ; Original official letters written 
by Brig.-Gen. A. L. Chetlain, Major-General Geo. 
L. Hartsuff, Brigadier-General Seymour, Asst. Adj 
Generals F.J. Port?r and R. M. Sawyer, Brigadier 
Generals Roberts. Foster, General H. W. Wessells, 
Major-General James L. Negley, John Marston ; 
U.S.N., Surgeon-GeneralW. A. Hammond, Major- 
General Daniel Butterfield and General I. I. Aber- 
crombie. 

NO. 65 

John C. Fremont's letter of acceptance of the 
nomination as candidate for the presidencv in orig- 
inal manuscript. Autobiography of Hon. G.V. Fox 
and General Geo. H. Thomas. Original letters 
written by General John Milton Thayer, General 
John J. Peck, General Jas. B. McPherson, General 
Thomas A. Scott, General F. Seigel, General Geo. 
B. McClellan and General R. C. Buchanan. 

NO. 66 

Picture and letter written by General Lew 
Wallace. Original manuscript of poem entitled 
" To Friends at Home," by T. Buchanan Reed. 
Picture and letter written by General Nathaniel P. 
Banks fif Massachusetts. Picture of and an appoint- 
ment signed by Edwin M. Stanton. Original letters 
written by Frank Leslie, Charles A. Dana, General 
W. T. Sherman, General James Negley, General 
W. S. Hancock, Admiral David D. Porter and Gen. 
Geo. B. McClellan. 

NO. 67 

Sonnet in manuscript of Margaret J. Preston. 
Letters written by Commodore Davis, Gens. Silas 
Casey, Phil Keai ney.Gens. Grover, Snead, Henry I. 
Hunt, Louis M. Goldsborough, Michael Corcoran, 
W. I. Brooks, Thomas Francis Meagher, Captain 
A. B. Nicholson and Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

NO. 68 

Original proclamation signed by John P. Hoff- 
man, governor of New York, on the death of 
William H. Seward. Original letters written by 
Edward Everett, General Pope, Surgeon-Genera! 
Hammond Pictures and letters of Governor Stev 
ens of Wyoming, Garrett Smith, W. G. Bromlow, 
Henry Clay, Gen. J. M. Cordova, Charles Sumner, 
J. Bayard Taylor. General Stoneman and Ben Perly 
Poore. Original chorus of " Marching through 
Georgia" in the author's handwriting. Autograph 
of Hon. Thomas G. Pratt. 



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NO. 69 

Abraham Lincoln exhibit. Picture of the resi- 
dence in which his father and mother lived and died. 
Picture of Dennis Hanks, who taught Lincoln how 
to read and write. The bootjack made and used by 
Lincoln. Original copy of the Sangamo Journal, 
printed at Springfield, 111., of Nov. nth, 1842, con- 
taining the marriage notice of Lincoln to Miss Todd. 
Original letters written by him at home and in office. 
Original manuscript of his message to Congress. 
The original famous last dispatch sent by Lincoln to 
Grant just before Lee's surrender. Old plan of the 
dress circle of Ford's Theatre. The page of the 
Aquidneck house register upon which J. Wilkes 
Booth, the assassinator of Lincoln registered. Or- 
iginal bill of the play at Ford's Theatre on the night 
of the assassination. Picture of the box occupied 
by Lincoln when he was assassinated. The key, 
piece of wall paper and part of the curtain of that 
box. Photograph of Robert Todd Lincoln. 

NO. 70 

Original will made by John Brown an hour 
before his execution. A business letter written by 
Brown, and a specimen of the famous pike that he 
proposed to arm negroes with in their right for 
freedom. Original letter from Brown to his wife 
_^.d children. 

NO. 71 

Boston Museum programmes of 1862-3-4, when 
J. Wilkes Booth was there with his company. Or- 



iginal copv of the pardon by President Johnson 
of Dr. Samuel Mudd, one of the Lincoln conspira- 
tors, who was sentenced to the Island of Dry Tort- 
ugas for life. Original copy of the story of the as- 
sassination of Lincoln and the trial of the conspira- 
tors, by Ben Pitman. Original letter by J. H. Sur- 
ratt. Photographs of Sam Arnold, Michael Laugh- 
lin, Edward Spangler, David Harold, Louis Payne, 
and George Atzerott, who were among the conspir- 
ators that caused the assassination of Lincoln. 
Photograph of the execution of Mrs. Surratt and 
other conspirators. Photograph of Lincoln's visit 
to the headquarters of the army of the Potomac 
received by McClellan and staff. Another photo- 
graph of his visit to the same heaqduarters in com- 
pany with AlLen Pinkerton ami General John J. 
McClernand. 

No. 72 

U. S. Grant exhibit. Picture of Grant's father 
and mother. Picture of Grant's birthplace. Origi- 
nal manuscript of speech by Gen. Grant. Grant's 
check hook, and original letters by him. Original 
bulletins written at his bedside when he was dying. 
Unsigned subscription paper to the New York 
Grant monument fund. Letter written by General 
Ben Butler. Original proclamation by Admiral 
Foote to the citizens of Clarksville, Tenn. Official 
war orders by General Pope and Maj. Gen. Nelson. 
Original letter by Gen. John C. Rice. Picture of 
John Burns, the hero of Gettysburg. Letter written 
by and picture of William Cullen Bryant. Naval 
battle plan drawn by Admiral David Porter. 



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UNION DEPARTMENT 



SOUTH WALL 

Birds-eye view of New York 
Birds-eye view of Boston 
Portrait of Henry Clay 

Specimens of Uniforms, all of which were worn 
during; the late war. 
Marine's Overcoat 
Artillery Overcoat 
Seaman's Duck Trousers 
Infantry Blouse and Cap 
Cavalry Trousers 
Cavalry Coat 
Enlis'ed Men's Trousers 
Infantry Coat 
Seamen's Trousers 
Artillery Dress Coat 
Engraving — "The Bugle Call " 
The Battle of Shiloh 
Noted Women of the War 
The Battle of Gettysburg 
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln 

WEST WALL 

William Cullen Bryant 
James G. Blaine 
Andrew Johnson 
Daniel Webster 
Horace Greely 
Levi P. Morton 

NORTH WALL 

Oil portrait from life, of Daniel Webster 

Gen. Sherman at Savannah 

Hon. Charles Sumner 

Gen. S. P. Heintzelman 

Certificate of Membership of the Jo Daviess 
Monument Association, signed by Gen. Grant. 

Gen. U. S. Grant 

James A. Garfield 

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The Storming of Chapultepec, Sept. 13,. 1847 

Horace Greely 

Hon. Franklin Pierce 

The Electoral Commission of 1877 

Commanders of the Gravd Army of the Repub- 
lic from iS66to 1887. 

Presidents of the United States 

Republican Leaders 

EAST WALL 

The 103 members of the 34th Illinois General 
Assembly that elected Gen. John A. Logan to the 
United States Senate, May 19, iSSg. 

The Harrison Family 

Gen. Logan and Family 



Gen. Geo. B. McClellan 

Scenes at Andersonville 

Surface view of San Francisco 

Roster of the 22d Regt., U. S. Colored Troops 

AMONG THE CASES 
No. 74 

War newspapers, with the following interest- 
ing illustrations : Federal sharpshooters picking 
off Confederate gunners before Vicksburg. The 
soldier's wife. General Sedgewick driving the Con- 
federates back of their fortifications at Fredericks- 
burg. General Rosecrans' army crossing the Tenn- 
essee River to occupy Chattanooga. Phases in 
Southern life. Burning of the Albany steamer 
" Isaac Newton" on the South River on the evening 
of Dec. 5, 1863. Battle of Kelly's Ford. The attack 
of the Federal ironclads on Fort Sumter, and the 
Confederate batteries commanding the entrance of 
Charleston Harbor, April 7, 1S63. Arrival at An- 
napolis, Md., of 1S0 Union prisoners from Belle Isle. 
General Geary's soldiers receiving the order "take 
rails." General Mosby's guerrillas in ambush wait- 
ing to capture a bearer of dispatches. An incident 
during the battle of Bristow Station. 

No. 75 

War newspapers showing the following illus- 
trations : Drilling conscripts in the Army of the 
Potomac. Stretcher-bearers and hospital ambulance 
waiting to carry the wounded off the field from 
Chancellorsville. Armed citizens attacking Quan- 
trell's guerrillas. General Custer charging and 
capturing a three-gun battery at Culpepper, Va. 
The town and fortifications of Savannah, Ga. Reb- 
els shopping- in Pennsylvania. Vicksburg from the 
rear of the troops of General Logan's division dig- 
ging into the fort in the centre of the rebel lines pro- 
tected by sharpshooters. Harper's Ferry, Va. Camp 
of the 1st Dist:ict Volunteers (colored) on Major's 
Island. The rioters on Broadway charged on by the 
police under Inspector Carpenter. The resumption 
of the draft in New York. 

No. 76 

War pictures. Capture of New Orleans. Wash- 
ington, D. C, and vicinity. Attack on Kelly's Ford, 
Va. Attack on Fredericksburg. Attack on Ft. 
Philip. Battle of Gettysburg. Battle of Rich Moun- 
tain. Departing for the war. Gun and mortar boats 
on the Mississippi. Capture of a Confederate flag 
at the battle of Murfreesboro. Union volunteer. 
U. S. ironclad steamship "Roanoke," the first tur- 
reted frigate in the United States. United States 
gun-boats on the James River covering the retreat. 
Battle of Bull Run. Battle of Shiloh. Bombard- 



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merit of Port Royal, S. C. Capture of Fort Donel- 
son, Tenn. Attack on Fort Hudson. Battle of Fair 
Oaks. Massachusetts militia passing through Bal- 
timore. General Stark at Bennington. Action be- 
tween the Monitor and Mernmac. Battle of Pea 
Ridge. 

No. 77 

War newspapers giving the following illustra- 
tions : The body of Lieut.-Col. Kimball, Hawkins' 
Zouaves, lying- in state in the governor's room. City 
Hall, NewYork. "Our administration and no inven- 
vention." Cavalry picket station on the left wing 
of Burnside's armv. Boarding and capture of the 
I'. S. steamer " TIarriet Lane" by the Confederates, 
who attacked her in Galveston Bay, protected by 
cotton bales. The war vessels and government 
transport, with troops and supplies moving up the 
Mississippi River to advance on Vickiburg under 
Gen. Banks, the new commander of the department 
of the Gulf. Loss of the celebrated ironclad "Mon- 
itor" and some of her crew, in a terrifric , ale off Cape 
Hatteras. General view of the attack on Fort Sum- 
ter, and batteries Wagner and Gregg, by the land 
forces under Gen. Gilmore, and the ironclad and 
gun-boat forces under Gen. Dahlgren. Brilliant 
charge of Gen. Spinola's brigade, driving the Con- 
federates from the hill in the battle at Wapping 
Height-. 

No. 77 

War newspapers and engravings : Bloody riot 
in Detroit, Mich. Potomac Run bridge, on the Po- 
tomac, Fredericksburg and Richmond R. R., built 
by the Union forces. Grand review of Gen. Stone- 
man's cavalry, Army of the Potomac, by President 
Lincoln, April, 1S63. Siege of Vicksburg. Capture 
of Roanoke Island. Interior of Gen. Hooker's tent, 
headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. Grand 
scrub race at the headquarters of the Irish Brigade, 
Army of the Potomac, on St. Patrick's Day, March 
17, 1863. 

No. 78 

Newspaper illustrations and portraits, as fol- 
lows : Gen. Foote ; Hon. Gideon Welles ; Hon. 
Stephen A, Douglas ; Hon. Thomas Benton ; Hon. 



Solon Robinson. Sketch of the battle of Gettys- 
burg. Major-General Grant, commander of the 
Army of the Cumberland. Grand bayonet charge 
by Gen. Birney's division at Chancellorsville. 
Charge of Maj -Gen. Blair's division at the battle 
of Vicksburg. Gen Thomas' corps' hand-to-hand 
bayonet fight at Chattanooga. Gen. Pleasanton's 
total route of the rebels at "Aldie." 

No. 79 

< biginal manuscripts of war orders written bv 
Admiral Farragut, Gen. Kendrick, Gen. Rawlins, 
Commander Dupee, and others. 

War views: Battle of Ball's Bluff, Va. Battle 
of Bull Run. Gen. Kearney's charge at the battle 
of Chantilly.Va. Struggle on a bridge during the 
retreat from Manassas. B;lttle of Wilson's Creek, 
Mo. Attack' on Fort Wagner. The rear guard of 
Sherman's march through Georgia. Testimony of 
Horace Heffren, of the Sons of Libert v. 

No. 80 

Letters written by Governor Oglesby of Illinois; 
Richard Yates, ex -Governor of Illinois; Hon.Thos. 
J. Henderson of Illinois; General John A. Logan, 
Hon. A. C. Fuller and others. Pictures of Hon. 
Lewis W. Ross, General Crook, Hon. S. M. Cul- 
lom, Hon. Samuel S. Marshall, Hon. Norman B. 
Judd, Hon. Evan C. Ingersoll, Hon. Burton C. 
Cook, Hon. Lyman Trumbull, and Hon. John M. 
Palmer. Newspapers: Evening edition of the 
New York Tribune, April |, 1865; ftctra evening 
edition of the New York Tribune, April 20, 1861; 
New York World, December 9, 1 36i ; New York 
Herald, January 1, iSf}i ; Philadelphia Inquirer, 
September 1 \. 1864. 

No. 81 

Specimens of envelopes used during the war. 
War newspapers: NewYork Tribune, November 
iS, 1S62; New York Herald, December 9, 1S60; 
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, April 27, 1S65; 
New York Times, October 5, 1S61; Daily Old Do- 
minion, Norfolk, Va., April 5, 1S65; New Orleans 
Evening Era, July 14, 1S63. 




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Lower Chickamauga Room 

This room receives its name from the fact that all officers captured at the battle of 
Chickamauga were held in this department and the one above. 



UNION DEPARTMENT 



" FALL IN FOR GRUB " 

The exhibit in the centre of the room with the 
above title is an officers " mess " chest, furnished 
by the Government for use in Winter quarters. 

NAMES OF PRISONERS 

On an easel in the centre of this room is an 
engraved list of the United States Army and Navy 
Officers that were confined in Libby Prison during 
the latter part of 1S63 and early part of 1S64. 

NORTH WALL 

Maj. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan 

Gen. Hancock 

Benj. Harrison 

Battle of Gettysburg 

The first dress parade in Nashville 

Five pictures in colors of the Brooklyn Sani- 
tary Fair of 1S64 

Buildings of the Great Central Fair, Phila- 
delphia, 1864 

Siege of Vicksburg 

Gen. Geo. B. McClellan 

Battle of Resaca 

Abraham Lincoln 

Battle of Cold Harbor 

Gen. U. S. Grant 

Battle between the Monitor and Merrimac 

General Winfield Scott 

Battle of Five Forks, Va. 

Gen. Phil. Sheridan 

Battle of Fort Donelson 

Gen. John A. Logan 

Battle of Spottsylvania 

Gen. Henry W. Halleck 

Battle of Antietam 

Gen. Phil. Kearney 

Battle of Chattanooga 

Gen. Geo. Stoneman 

General William T. Sherman 

Battle of Missionary Ridge 

Sheridan at Savannah, Ga. 

General Peter J. Osterhalis 

Battle of Atlanta 

Storming of Ft. Donelson, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1S62 

General Frank P. Blair 

WEST WALL 

General Joseph Hooker 
General Ambrose E. Burnside 
General U. S. Grant 
General Benj. Harrison 
Admiral D. Farragut 
Admiral A. H. Foote 
General J. B. McPherson 



General William S. Rosecrans 
Presentation plate of the Philadelphia Inquirer, 
entitled "Liberty" (1864) 

SOUTH WALL 

The gallant charge of the 54th Massachusetts 
Colored Regiment on Fort Wagner 

Gen. Geo. B. McClellan 

Battle of Lookout Mountain 

General Fremont 

Battle of the Wilderness 

Colonel Elmer Ellsworth 

Battle of Gettysburg 

Gen. Geo. H. Thomas 

Battle of Fredericksburg 

Gen. U. S. Grant 

Battle of Champion Hills 

Henry C. Work, author of " Marching Through 
Georgia " 

Capture of New Orleans 

Soldiers and Sailors Monuments at Decorah, 
Ta., Union City, Mich., MauchChunck, Pa., Hum- 
'-',.„, Iowa, Defiance, Ohio, New Cumberland, 
West Va., Lowville, N. Y., Salem, Mass. 

Battle of Shiloh 

Battle of Gettysburg 

Surface view of San Francisco in 184 3 

Republican Leaders 

Lous D'Orleans 

General Rosecrans at Stone River 

Gen. U. S. Grant 

Siege of Atlanta 

General W. T. Sherman 

Capture of Fort Fisher 

General Winfield Scott Hancock 

Engrossed copy of Drake's "American Flag." 

EAST WALL 

The Merrimac and Monitor. 
Generals Grant and Sherman. 
General John A. Rawlins. 
General P. H. Sheridan (1S64). 
General Geo. H. Thomas. 

AMONG THE CASES 
No. 82 

Portraits of Colonel Robert G. Shaw, General 
Julius Stahel, General F. Sigel, General Slocum, 
General Edwin Sumner, General Daniel E. Sickles, 
General George Stoneman, General Richardson, 
General I. P. Rodman, General C. L. Russell, 
Gen. Samuel A. Rice, Gen. Lovell H. Rossau, Gen- 
eral Rosecrans, and Generals Pbasanton, Lowell, 
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Paulding, Commodore \V. D. Porter ; Generals 
Meredith, Mitchell, Cainpbelljohn McNeil, Joseph 
Lanman, R. W. Johnson, E. D. Keyes, S. P. 
Heintzelman, Phil Kearney and others. 

No. 83 

Portraits of Generals H. B. Hidden, J. H. Ho- 
bart Ward, William S. Harvey, W. B. Ha/.en, Lu- 
cius Fairchild, John C. Foster, John D. P. Douw, 
P. Edwin O'Connor, Michael Corcoran, D. N. 
Couch, A.E. Burnside.J. G. Barnard, N. P. Banks, 
L. C. Baker, Don Carlos Buell, W. W. Averill, 
Joseph C. Abbott, James G. Blunt, Robert Ander- 
son, Augustus 11. Abbett, Colonel Chas. C. Gray, 
and Rear-Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough. 

No. 84 

Original copies of songs, poetry and hymns, 
printed during the war. Six camp views in colors. 

No. 85 

Twenty-five original camp views in colors. 

No. 86 

Seventy-five specimens of envelopes used dur- 
ing the war. Portraits of Generals Alexander 
Webb, Samuel Zook, John L. Worden, William D. 
Whipple, Fitz Henry Warren, Max Weber, Charles 
Wilkes, C. C. Washhurne, Geo. H. Thomas, Noah 
H. Terry, J. W. Sill, William S. Tilton, E. D. 
Townsend, D. B. Wilcox, and Commander Waid, 
U. S. N. 

No. 87 

Newspapers printed during the war. The Hav- 
ersack, Cincinnati, October u and 25, 1S62; Army 
Bulletin, Winchester, Tenn., July 23, 1S63; original 
copy written for The Old Flag, published at Camp 
Ford, February 16, 1S64; The Pennsylvania Fifth, 



Camp McDowell, June 17, 1S64; extra of the New 
Orleans Times; New York Herald, April 14, 1S61, 
March 13, 1863 and July 21, 1S63. 

No. 88 

Newspapers printed towards the close of the 
war, among which are copies of the New York 
Times, World and Herald; Chicago Evening your- 
nal and Chicago Tribune of M".y 2, 3 and 9, and 
April n, 1865. 

No. 89 

Newspapers printed at the close of the war, 
including the New York Herald and Tribune, and 
copies of the Chicago Tribune. 

No. 90 

Newspapers published at the time of President 
James A. Garfield's death. Chicago Daily Tribune, 
of September 20 and 25, 1881 ; Evening Star, Wash- 
ington, September 20, and New York Times, 1 i the 
.-a me date; the Cincinnati Enquirer and Washing- 
ton Evening Star, of June 30, 1SS2, with reports of 
the hanging of Guiteau. New York Herald July 
24, 1SS5, with full report on death of General Grant. 

No. 91 

Newspapers of December 7, 1SS6, with full re- 
ports of the death and burial of General John A. 
Logan. Newspapers of April, 1S65, with reports 
of the death and burial of President Lincoln. 

No. 92 

Forty specimens of newspapers published dur- 
ing the Civil War. Fac-simile of the bullet, after 
striking the wall, fired by Sergeant Mason at Charlei 
Guiteau, the assassinator of President Garfield 
This bullet by striking the wall was flattened int# 
a likeness of Guiteau's profile. ^ 



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Milroy s Room 



General Milroy and a portion of his command, the Ninth Indiana Regiment, were captured 
in the Shenandoah Valley, in 1863, and were held as prisoners in this room. Thus it was given 
his name. 



CONFEDERATE DEPARTMENT 



THE FIRST UNION FLAG IN 
RICHMOND 

Resting on an easel in the centre of this room is 
the first United States flag thrown to the breeze in 
Richmond, after the evacuation of the city by the 
Confederates and its occupation by the Massachu • 
setts Cavalry under Major Stevens. This old flag 
shows beautiful embroidery work by hand, and the 
design represents Washington on horseback bear- 
ing the stars and stripes o'er his head. The flag 
was made Oct. 19, 17S1, and consequently is 10S 
years old. 



NORTH WALL 
Portraits and Views 

Surface View of New Orleans 
Original photographs of army headquarters and 
Southern battlefields. 

A midnight race on the Mississippi 
Low water on the Mississippi 
S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Confederate 
States of America. 

A cotton plantation on the Mississippi 
Adjutant-General Samuel Cooper 
Capitulation and surrender of Robt. E. Lee at 
Appomattox to Lieutenant- General U. S. Grant, 
April 9, 1865. 

General John Pegram 
The surrender of General Lee 
Lieutenant-General A. P. Stewart 
The great race on the Mississippi between the 
steamers Robert E. Lee and Natchez. 

General J.C.Pemberton, who surrendered Vicks- 
burgjuly 4, 1865. 

High water on the Mississippi 
General John 11. Morgan 
The levee — New Orleans 
General W. II. F. Lee 
The Mississippi in time of peace 
General Rains 

The Mississippi in time of war 
A race with the buck-horns 
Map of Harper's Ferry 
Map of Bull Run 
General M. L. Barnum 
Map of Chattanooga 

Military map showing the marches of the United 
States forces under command of General Sherman. 

Famous Confederate commanders of the Civil 
War. 



WEST WALL 

General R. Ransom 
General Sam Jones 

A group of ninety-seven distinguished Confed- 
erates. 

General G. N. Smith 
Governor Wise, of Virginia 

SOUTH WALL 

On this wall are one hundred views of all the 
celebrated Southern battlefields, cemeteries, monu- 
ments, and residences, which include views of 
Richmond, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Bull Run, 
Gettysburg and Fredericksburg. 

Portraits 

General Mosby 
General Stonewall Jackson 
General Mahone 
General Colston 
General Preston Smith 
General Braxton Bragg 
General J. C. Breckenridge 
Major-GeneralJ. B. Hood 

John Letcher, Governor of Virginia from 1S60 
to 1S64. 

General A. P. Hill. 

EAST WALL 

Captain J. Pegram 

Interior and exterior view of Fort Sumter, 
showing the effects of the bombardment 
General Longstreet 
General Ewell 

Group of noted Confederate Generals 
General McCulloch 

AMONG THE CASES 
No. 93 

Official Confederate documents and papers. 
A letter written in Libby Prison by a prisoner, 
December 4, 1S62. A Missouri defense bond issued 
under the Confederate government. Original man- 
uscript of a letter written by Senator Hayne of 
South Carolina, to whom Webster made his famous 
reply. Letters written by Brigadier- General B. G. 
M.Donovan, and E. C. Meminger, Secretary of the 
Treasury of the Confederate States. Confederate 
array muster roll. 

No, 94 

Confederate newspapers. Mobile Advertiser 
and Register, July 14, 1S61J Mobile Daily Tribuen 



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January 2, iS<i.>; Charleston Mercury, June 24, 1S61 ; 
Richmond Dispatch, April 14, 1862; Petersburg, Va. 
Daily Express, July 10, 1S61; The Daybook, Norfolk, 
Va., July »- Ij62, Music dedicated to Confederate 
Gee- 

Nos. 95-96 
Forty original copies of the Southern Illustrated 
News, each with portraits of leading Confederate 
officers. These papers were published at Rich- 
mond, Va., in [862- ,;. 

No. 97 

Official orders and documents signed by B. N. 
Clements Chief of Appointment Bureau;'!'. R. Girt, 
Adjutant and Inspector- General; K. G. II. Kean, 
Assistant Secretary of War; Howell Cobb, Secre- 
retary of the Treasury; Alexander Stephens, Vice- 
President of the Confederate States of America; 
John II. Reagan, Postmaster-General; Thomas Jor- 
dan, Chief of Staff to General Beauregard; W. S. 
Downer, Superintendent of Armories; General Mar- 
dee; General Armistead, killed at Gettysburg; Gen- 
eral Braxton Bragg; R. Toombs, the man who said 
he would call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill. 

No. 98 

Fifty specimens of envelopes used by the Con- 
federates. Original Confederate music. 

No. 99 

Rules and regulations of uniform and dress of 
the Confederate army, with tailors' plates for offi- 
cer.-' uniforms. 

No. 100 

Letters and official documents written and sign- 
ed by Major William H. Payne, Colonel R. L. Gib- 
son, Captain John W. Young, Maj.-Gen. Samuel 
W. Melton, Maj.-Gen. G. W. Smith, General J. W. 
Pegram, Captain It. E. Graves, Ass't Adjt.-Gen. 
John Withers, Adjt.-Gen. Benjamin S. Ewell, Gov- 
ernor Shorter of Alabama, and others. 

No. 101 

Fifty small portraits of distinguished Confeder- 
ate Generals. Confederate currency and envelopes. 

No. 102 

Confederate publications printed during the 
war. An old-fashioned horse pistol. 

No.103 

Official war document- signed lu Major S. B. 
Brewer, Albert Ellery, Auditor of the Treasury; 
L. B. Northrop, Jos. A. Hemple, Captain Geo. E. 
Taylor and others. Confederate postage stamps and 
envelopes. The Daily Citizen, Vicksburg, Miss., 
of July 2, iS6}, printed on wall paper. Portrait of 
Howell Cobb, and a Jeff Davis souvenir. 

No. 104 

Twenty-five portraits of distinguished Confed- 
erate officers, including General Sam Jones, General 



Ransom, General G. W. Smith, Genera! Mahone 
and Colonel Ruffin, who tired the first gun of Fort 
Sumter. Official state document signed by Wm.W. 
Bibbs, Governor of Alabama. Letter signed by 
John Tyler, President of the United States. 

No.105 

Confederate publications printed during the war. 
Map of the State of Virginia. Natural history of 
the Negro race printed at Charleston, S.C.,in 1S37. 

No. 106 

Portrait of General J. E.Johnston. $1000 Con- 
federate bond with coupons. Certificates of the 
famous Confederate fifteen million dollar loan. Ex- 
ecutive document of State of Georgia signed by Ru- 
fus B. Bullock, Governor. Tennessee $1000 bond 
signed by Governor Isham G. Harris. Muster roll 
of the 74th Virginia Regiment. A Louisiana bill 
of sale for slaves, and a letter by John C. Calhoun. 

No. 107 

Confederate books printed during the war, 
among which is the life of Pauline Cushman, the 
celebrated Union spy and scout. Recollections of 
Henry Watkins Allen ; The Wearing of the Gray ; 
Life of Charles Didier Dreux, the first Confederate 
officer killed in the war. 

No. 108 

Confederate publications, specimens of envel- 
opes, photographs and maps. One of the most in- 
teresting publications in this case is the story of the 
prison life of Jefferson Davis. 

No. 109 

Confederate newspapers published during the 
war: The Chattanooga Daily Gazette, April 23, 1S64; 
The Southern Field and Fireside, Augusta, Ga., 
August 10, iSoi ; Sentinel, Richmond, Va., March 
iS, 1S63; Charleston Mercury, March 5th and 9th 
and April 12th, 1S61 ; Weekly "Journal, Camden, S. 
C, August 4, 1865 ; Charleston Daily Courier, Dec. 
1, 1863; The City Gazette, Charleston, Dec. 20, 1S21. 

No. 110 

Confederate newspapers: Savannah Republican, 
June iS, iS6i,and March 7, 1S64 ; Richmond Daily 
Dispatch, May 3, 1864 ; Galveston, Texas, Tri- 
Weekly Nezus, October 2, 1863; Weekly Junior 
Register, Franklin, La., October 30, 1S62, printed 
on wall paper. 

No. 111 

Home made wooden leg made by a Confederate 
soldier. Old-time plantation locks. Laurel root 
found on the battlefield of Seven Pines after the 
close of the war, just as it now is and has been in 
Libby Prison, Richmond, for several years in the 
office of the Southern Fertilizer Company. It will 
be seen that this root has been oddly carved, the 
work having been done by a Confederate soldier 
with a jack-knife. 



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EAST WALL 

Hon. L. P. Walker, Secretary of War of the 
Confederate States of America. 

General Rhell 

Pierre Soule, arrested in 1S62 at New Orleans, 
for disloyalty to the Federal government, and con- 
fined in Fort Lafayette. 

Matthew Maury, Commander in the Confeder- 
ate States Navy. 

General Turner Ashhv 

Confederate flags 

AMONG THE CASES 
No. 112 

Confederate battery valise, from Port Hudson. 
Wreath made of wood by a prisoner in Anderson - 
ville. Piece of wood taken from the old frigate 
" Constitution," after engagement with the British 
frigate "Guerriere," August 9, 1S12. Relics from 
battlefields. 



No. 113 

Specimens of Confederate currency. Confed- 
erate publications. Autographs of Mrs. General 
Stonewall Jackson. Mrs. General J. E. B. Stuart, 
and Mrs. General B. E. Lee A wooden knife and 
spoon found in Libby Prison, Richmond, concealed 
between the window casing and the brick wall, 
when the building was taken down in May, 1SS0. 
Confederate postage stamps, views and songs. 



No. 114 

Confederate photographs, currency, envelopes, 
publications and letters, and official papers signed 
by Jeff Davis and Pierre Soule. 



No. 115 

Confederate bonds and coupons, and other inter- 
esting official documents. 



Chickamauea Room 



UNION DEPARTMENT 



SOUTH WALL 

Map of North Anna 

Flag from Admiral Farragut's flagship " Hart- 
ford." 

Signal flags 

One hundred illustrations from Frank Leslie's 
Weekly printed during the war. 

Map of the seat of war 

Map of the Atlanta campaign 

Maps of Gettysburg on the first and second day's 
battle. 

Map of battle of Iuka, Miss. 

WEST WALL 

Map of Port Hudson and vicinity, prepared by 
the order of General Nathaniel P. Banks. 

Map of the siege of Vicksburg by the United 
States troops under General U. S. Grant. 

NORTH WALL 

Map of the battlefield of Roanoke Island 
Distinguished Americans at a meeting of the 

New York Historical Society. 
v All of the full rank Maj. -Generals of the United 

States Army. 

Map of the battlefield in front of Franklin, 

Tenn. 



Map of the country between Monterev, Tenn. 
and Corinth, M ss., shi wing the lines of the en- 
trenchments and the routes followed by the Union 
forces commanded by Maj General Hal leek. 

Map of Central Virginia showing General 
Grant's campaign and marches by the armies under 
his command in 1S64-5. 

Grant and his generals. 

General Casev. 

General Robert Anderson, who surrendered Ft. 
Sumter. 

General A. J. Smith 

Flags of the Armies of the United States carried 
during the war of the rebellion to designate the 
headquarters of the different armies, army corps, 
divisions and brigades. 

Silk flag presented by Robert Forsyth, General 
Freight Agf nt of the Illinois Central R. R.. to the 
Forsyth Guards and carried at Shiloh throughout 
the war. 

Fort Sumter at the time of its capture, February 
iS, 1865, showing the effects of the bombardment. 

Map showing the military defenses of Cincinnati, 
Covington and Newport. 

Sketch showing the relative positions of Fort 
Henry and Fort Donelson. 

Map cf Virginia. 

Map of the action at Drainsville, Va., Decern 
ber 20, 1S61. 



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Streight's Room 



This room receives its name from the fact that Colonel Streight and a portion of his com- 
mand, who were captured at Macon while on a foraging expedition through Georgia, by Gen- 
erals Forrest and Rodney, were imprisoned in here. 



CONFEDERATE DEPARTMENT 



General Albert Pike 

Resting on easels in this room is a large pho- 
tograph of General Albert Pike and a surface view 
of Washington, D. C. 

NORTH WALL 

General Monroe M. Parsons 
General Rhodes 

Oil Painting 

The Blockade Runners in port at St. George, 
Bermuda Islands. 



Naval flag captured on a Confederate gunboat 
in the lower Mississippi, July 8, 1863. 

Original posters calling for volunteers, under 
President Lincoln's call. 

Life-size portrait of General Grant at Chat- 
tanooga in 1863, by Antrobus. 

General Logan at the battle of Champion Hills, 
painted by Kurz & Allison of Chicago. 

Etching of the battle of Gettysburg, from the 
original painting for the State of Pennsylvania, 
under award of commission appointed by the Leg- 
islature. 

Map of the battlefield at Carnifex Ferry, "West 
Virginia. 

The capture of New Orleans. The fleets pass- 
ing Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April 25, 1S62, and 
running the batteries. 

Captain D. H. Maury, commander of the de- 
fense of Mobile. 

WEST WALL 

Map of the battlefield of Pea Ridge 

Stephen R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy of 
the Confederate States of America. 

Map of the Confederate line of works at Blakely, 
captured by the Army of West Mississippi April 9, 
1S65, showing the position and approaches by the 
Union forces. 

Map of the Atlanta campaign 

Plan and sections of Fort Fisher 

Sketch of the battlefield and Confederate works 
in front of Williamsburg, Ya. 

General Humphrey Marshall 

Map of the battlefield at Perryville, Ky. 

Sketch of the battlefield of Logan's Cross-Road, 
and of the enemy's fortified position at and opposite 
Mill Spring, Ky. 

General Crosby 

Map showing the operations at Cumberland 
Gap, Tenn. 

Sketch of the vicinity of Fort Fisher. 



SOUTH WALL 

Surface view of Gettysburg 

General Pillow 

The last meeting of Stonewall Jackson and Gen- 
eral R. E. Lee, the day before the battle of Chan- 
cellorsville, May 1, 1S63, from the original painting 
by Julio. 

General W.J. Hardee 

Battlefield in front of Nashville, where the Un- 
ion forces under Major-General Geo. H. Thomas 
routed the forces under General Hood. 

General Garland. 

Map of the siege operations at Spanish Fort, 
Mobile Bay. 

Confederate flag from the City Hall,Vicksburg, 
Miss., captured July 4, 1S63, by General Grant. It 
is said to have been presented to the city by 'Mrs 
Jeff Davis. 

Map showing the plan of Fort Henry and its 
outworks. 

Leonidas Polk, Ep'scopal Bishop of Lafourche, 
La. He joined the Coi. federate army, and in July, 
1S61, was promoted to the rank of Major-Gen- 
eral. He commanded a corps at the battles of Shi- 
loh, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, and was 
placed under arrest by General Bragg for disobedi- 
ence of orders, and was killed by a cannon shot on 
Pine Mountain, June ia, 1S64. 

Map showing the battlefield of Chattanooga 

Confederate flag captured on the Indian River, 
Fla. 

General Rains 

Maps of the Atlanta campaign 

Admiral Buchanan 

General Thos. L. Clingman 

Flag of the Second Maryland Infantry, Colonel 
John R. Kenley, commanding, captured and re-cap- 
tured at the battle of Fort Royal. 

General Thomas 

General Colquitt 

Andersonville Prison, with its horrors illus- 
trated. 

Map showing the battlefield near Belmont, Mo. 

General Felix K. Zolliger 

Old-time piano from Rosseau Plantation, Lou- 
isiana. 

Map of the field of Shiloh 

Map showing the system of fortifications on the 
Mississippi river, at Island No. 10 and New Madrid. * 

Robert E. Lee 

Map of the double fortifications at Columbus.Ky. 



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Gettysburg Room 



All of the Union officers captured at the battle of Gettysburg were confined in this room. 



UNION DEPARTMENT 



SOUTH WALL 

Mapof the batt) .field in front of Franklin.Tenn., 
where the Union fo/ces under Major-General J. M. 
Schofield, severely repulsed the Confederates com- 
manded by Lieutenant-General Hood. 

Mapof the military department of the Platte 

Map of Chancellorsville 

Map of Totopotomy 

Map of Appomattox Court House 

"'.apof Spottsylvania Court House 

tlap of Bermuda Hundred 

NORTH WALL 
PhotographicViews 

Town of Resaca, Ga. 

Whiteside Valley, below the bridge 

Dalton Road, Resaca 

Kenesaw Battlefield 

Buzzard's Roost Battlefield 

Mansion House, Alexandria, Va. 

Portrait of General Burnside 

Map of Western Virginia 

Views of Andersonville 

Providence Spring Stump — When the prisoners 
at Andersonville were suffering for water in Au- 
gust, 1S64, a spring was found flowing from this 
stump. But the stump was just a few feet outside 
of the " dead line," and many soldiers were shot for 
trying to obtain a draught of this water. 

General Julius Stahel 



General Benj. F. Butler and staff 

Admiral Foote 

General Geo. C. Meade 

General Carl Schurz 

Oil painting of Fort Hamilton, Long Island, 
showing Fort Lafayette, where the Government 
imprisoned the officers of State who were disloyal 
to the North. 

Mapof the approaches and defences at Knox- 
ville.Tenn., showing the positions occupied by the 
Federal and Confederate forces during the siege. 

Chattanooga Valley 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Battle of Resaca, Ga. 

Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain 

Crest of Mission Ridge 

Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge 

View of Chattanooga and the Valley from Look- 
out Mountain. 



EAST WALL 

Map of Jettersville and Sailor's Creek 

Map of Fredericksburg 

Map of Cold Harbor 

Military map, showing the marches of the Un- 
ion forces under General W. T. Sherman 

Map illustrating military operations in front of 
Atlanta between July 19th and August 26th, 1864. 

Map of High Bridge and Farmville 

Map of the Wilderness 



The Basements 



The North basement, or cellar, was familiarly known as " Rat Hell." This originally had 
simply a dirt flooring and it was from the North wall that the tunnel was recommenced. The 
opening through the wall is still there and the very bricks that were taken from it. The centre 
room of the three basements contains the cells, four in nnmber, in which prisoners were con- 
fined for disobedience or for hostages. One of these is entirely without light and was known as 
the " black hole." The South cellar was not used for any purpose other than storage, and 
Drisoners had no access to these cellars whatever unless placed in the cells. 



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F. M. FINCH 



By the flow of the inland river, 

Whence the fleets of iron have fled, 
Where the blades of the grave grass quiver, 
Asleep are the ranks of the dead. 
Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day — 
Under the one the blue ; 
Under the other the gray. 

These in the robings of glory, 

Those in the gloom of defeat, 
All with the battle-blood gory 
In the dusk of eternity meet. 
Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day — 
Under the laurel the blue; 
Under the willow the gray. 

From the silence of sorrowful hours, 

Let the desolate mourners go, 
Lovingly laden with flowers 

Alike for the friend and the foe. 
Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day — 
Under the roses the blue ; 
Under the lillies the gray. 

So, with an equal splendor 

The morning sun rays fall, 
With a touch impartially tender 

On the blossoms blooming for all. 



Under the sod and the dew, 
Waiting fhe judgment day — 

'liroidered with gold the blue; 
Mellowed with gold the gray. 

So, when the summer calleth 

On forest and field of grain, 
With an equal murmur falleth 
The cooling drip of the rain. 
Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day — 
Wet with the rain the blue; 
Wet with the rain the gray. 

Sadly, but not with upbraiding, 

The generous deed was done ; 
In the storm of the years that are fading 
No braver battle was won. 
Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day — 
Under the blossoms the blue ; 
Under the garlands the gray. 

No more shall the war-cry sever, 
Or the winding rivers be red; 
They banish our anger forever 

When they laurel the graves of our dead J 
Under the sod and the dew, 

Waiting the judgment day — 
Love and tears for the blue ; 
Tears and love for the gray. 



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REV. O. HICKS 



The entire land between the Lakes and Gulf, 
the Atlantic and Pacific, from Maine to Ore- 
gon, from Rainy Lake to Cape Sable, is the 
home of the American citizen, and safety of 
person and protection of property should be 
extended alike to all, and when we cease to 
abuse liberty and award her legitimate domain, 
no cloud will darken our national sky. We 
urge an examination of points of agreement, 



that a firm friendship and brotherly under- 
standing be effected or brought about between 
us. Then points of difference can be weighed 
more justly, and handled with regard for each 
other's feelings, and each have an eye to his 
brother's honor and interests ; then no clash- 
ing will follow. Let not the Blue despise the 
Gray, nor the Gray treat with contempt the 
Blue. Were we brave and willing in the day 



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of battle ? So was the wearer of the Gray. 
Did we cheerfully endure hardships as good 
soldiers, performing long marches, enduring 
the sufferings incident to a soldier's life, in 
time of war, without a murmur, but with com- 
mendable patience and perseverance? So did 
the wearer of the Gray. At Cold Harbor, 
Winchester, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chan- 
cellorsville, Gettysburg, from Bridgeport to 
Atlanta, Spottsjlvania to Appomattox, were 
we not faced by foemen worthy of our steel ? 
Not in the person of foreigners. No ; but in 
the brothers of our own household. Was it 
not Greek meeting Greek ? And comrades, 



do we not in heart to-day, grasp with true 
brotherly affection the hand of him who so 
honestly and so bravely opposed what you and 
I with honesty and courage defended? And 
furthermore, do we not give them a hearty 
welcome to all the sunshine of liberty, burying 
beneath the sod of the past whatever may have 
come between us, and seek to talk and live as 
brothers — each a blessing to the other ? To 
talk and write less about points of difference, 
and more about points of agreement, would 
soon knit us together as one people, as we 
never have been knit together before. 



(sS^ • Union • BopeVep 

THE REV. HOWARD HENDERSON, D. D. 

I was a soldier of the South. I was with 
her fortunes until her last banner went down. 
I. once thought my heart was in the tomb of 
her heroic dead. I now feel that I best serve 
the purpose for which they fought and fell, by 
being true to the issues that survive them. I 
could inum, in the Pantheon of fame, the ashes 
of every immolated Southron ; I would blazon 
an epitaph of eulogy upon every mouldering 
grave; I would not, by word or deed, have 
them dishonored. This would be to put a 
brand on the brow of my own children, for I 
might too have been in the charnel where they 
rest. The dead past buried its dead, and their 
graves are not dishonored. Flowers are twined 
alike for the blue and the gray. History will 
embalm them with the same perfume of praise. 
They fought in a " war of the Roses." They 
were two knights met at the crossing of the 
highways where our fathers had set up a shield 
with golden and sil-vern side. Now, we have 
the tri colored escutcheon of America — red, 
white and blue — held in the hand of the god- 
dess of liberty, whose index finger points to a 
glorious future along a colonnade of patriotic 
light. 

Whatever can cement America in the bonds 
of civic and Christian interest, interprets " the 
duty of the hour." 



-• -Home • gi/^t • +Iorrie " 

FRANCES WILLARD 

In the spring of 1863 two great armies were 
encamped on either side of the Rappahannock 
River, one dressed in blue, and the other 
dressed in gray. As twilight fell, the bands of 
music on the Union side began to play the 
martial music, " The Star Spangled Banner " 
and "Rally Round the Flag;" and that 
challenge of music was taken up by those upon 
the other side, and they responded with " The 
Bonnie Blue Flag " and "Away Down South 
in Dixie." It was born in upon the soul of a 
single soldier in one of those bands of music 
to begin a sweeter and a more tender air, and 
slowly as he played it, they joined in a sort of 
chorus of all the instruments upon the Union 
Side, until finally a great and mighty chorus 
swelled up and down our army — " Home, 
Sweet Home." When they had finished 
there was no challenge yonder, for every band 
upon that further shore had taken up the 
lovely air so attuned to all that is holiest and 
dearest, and one great chorus of the two great 
hosts went up to God ; and when they had 
finished the sweet and holy melody, from the 
boys in gray there came a challenge, " Three > 
cheers for home ! " and as they went resound- 
ing through the skies from both sides of the 
river, " something upon the soldier's cheeks 
washed off the stains of powder." 



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GENERAL GRANT'S MILITARY SERVICES. 



PROF. A. O. WRIGHT. 




UDGED by what he actually 
did, Ulysses S. Grant was the 

(s^p4» greatest soldier whom Amer- 
ica has produced. We cannot 
^p consider possibilities. What ca- 
ip pacities for leadership lay dormant 
in the obscure millions who carried mus- 
kets or swords we cannot say. We only 
know that others failed where Grant 
succeeded. I have too much faith in 
God and in the American people to be- 
lieve that our final success depended 
upon any one man. Had any one of a- 
thousand accidents barred the rise of 
Grant to the chief command of our 
armies, we should have conquered just 
the same by force of our numbers and 
the justice of out cause. But that the 
end came when it did, and as it did, we 
owe under divine providence to the skill 
and the will of Gen. Grant. 

His military history is too familiar to 
need rehearsal now. Hundreds of thou- 
sands still survive who helped to make 
that history, and millions are living now 
who read that history as it was born 
amid blood and tears, To them* it 'is no 
dead fact stored up in dusty .libraries, no 
tiresome study for the schoolboy; it is a 
part of their own lives. Vicksburg and 
Appomattox Courthouse are not to them 
like Marathon and Thermopylae, vague 
shadows of the vanished past. Fort 
Donelson and the Wilderness are historic 
names to-day. But while 'this genera- 
tion lives they are more than historic. 
They are instinct with the life of the 
heroic present, greater than any heroic 



past. The time shall come when these 
too shall pass away from the living 
history engraved upon men's memories, 
and remain only -in that written tradition 
in books which we call history, the em- 
balmed mummy of the real history in the 
thoughts of men. 

When that time comes, the name of' 
Grant will still remain as the great 
chieftain of our' armies, and the victories 
he won will be studied by soldiers as 
among the great achievements of military' 
science. And men will then say of him, 
that he never lost a battle, that he never 
retreated, and that when he won a vie- 
tory be followed it up so as to gather all 
the fruits of it. He had to face the best 
generals of the South, acting usually on 
the defensive, behind strong fortifications, 
with numbers almost equal to his own, 
and he always won. Three times a 
whole army surrendered to him, and no 
other Southern army surrendered to any 
other general until after the war was 
virtually closed. His Vicksburg cam- 
paign, for its conception and execution, 
was worthy of Napoleon's best days, and 
the comprehensive sweep of his plans for 
crushing out the rebellion, after he was 
put in supreme command, were greater 
than Napoleon could have made, for 
Napoleon's inordinate vanity would 
never have allowed Sherman to make 
his brilliant March to the Sea, while he 
was doing the less striking but more 
useful work of squeezing the main army 
of the rebellion to destruction behind its 
fortifications. 



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Up from the south at break of day, 
Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, 
The affrighted air with a shudder bore, 
Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door, 
The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, 
Telling the battle was on once more, 
And Sheridan twenty miles away. 
And wider still those billows of war 
Thundered along the horizon's bar, 
And louder yet into Winchester rolled 
The roar of that red sea uncontrolled, 
Making the blood of the listener cold 
As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, 
With Sheridan twenty miles away. 



But there's a road from Winchester town, 
A good, broad highway leading down ; 
And there, thro' the flash of the morning light, 
A steed as black as the steeds of night 
Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight ; 
V.s if he knew the terrible need, 
He stretched away with the utmost speed : 
Hills ro^e and fell — but his heart was gay, 
With Sheridan fifteen miles away. 
Under his spurning feet the road 
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, 
And the landscape flowed away behind, 
Like an ocean flying before the wind ; 
And the steed like a bark fed with furnace-ire 
Swept on with his wild eyes full of fire; 



But lo ! he is nearing his heart's desire, 
He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray. 
With Sheridan only five miles away. 

The first that the General saw were the groups 
Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops ; 
What was done — what to do — a glance told 

him both, 
And, striking his spurs with a terrible oath, 
He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of hur- 
rahs, 
And the wave of retreat checked its course 

there, because 
The sight of the master compelled it to pause, 
With foam and with dust the black charger 

was gray, 
By the flash of his eye and his nostril's play 
He seemed to the whole great army to say: 
" I have brought you Sheridan all the way 
From Winchester town, to save the day ! " 

Hurrah ! hurrah ! for Sheridan ! 
Hurrah ! hurrah ! for horse and man ! 
And when their statues are placed on high, 
Under the dome of the Union sky — 
The American soldier's temple of fame — 
There with the glorious General's name, 
Be it said, in letters both bold and bright: 
" Here is the steed that saved the day 
By carrying Sheridan into the fight 
From Winchester, twenty miles away !" 



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Sherman's March to the Sea. 

Words by Lieut. S. H. M. Bters. By Permission of O. Ditson & Co. Music by Lieut. J. O. Rockwell. 
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And the bu - gles re-ech-oed the mu - sic 
And we storm'dthe wild hillsof Re-sac - ca 
And the blood of the pa • tri • ot dampened 
When Sherman said" Boys, you are wea • ry; 



And ea • ger-ly watch'd for the foe, 
That came from t"'ie lips of the men; 
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As Sherman marched down to the sea. 
When Sherman parched down to the sea. 



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EMORY A. STORRS 



Bright and shining <_>u our resplendent an- 
nals shall appear the names of those thousands 
of noble, heroic and self-sacrificing women, 
•who organized and carried f rward to triumph- 
ant success a colossal sanitary and charitable 
scheme, the like of which, in nobility of con- 
ception and perfectness of execution, the 
world had never before witnessed, and which 
carried all around the globe the fame and the 
name of the women of America. 

From camp to camp, from battlefield to bat- 
tlefield, through tl long and toilsome march, 
by day and by night, these sacred charities fol- 
lowed, and the prayers of the devoted and the 
true were ceaselessly wiih you through all 
dangers. 



Leagues and leagues separated you from 
home, but the blessings there invoked upon 
you hovered over and around you, and sweet- 
ened your sleep like angels' visits. 

\\ hile the boy soldier slept by his camp fire 
at night and dreaming of home, and what his 
valor would achieve for his country, uttered 
even in his dreams prayers for the loved ones 
who had made thnt home so dear to him, the 
mother dreaming of her son breathed at the 
same time prayers for his safety, and for the 
triumph of his cause. The prayers and bless- 
ings of mother and son, borne heavenward, 
met in the bosom of their common God and 
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All quiet along the Potomac they say. 

Except now and then a stray picket 
I s shot on his beat as he walks to and fro, 

By a rifleman hid in a thicket. 
'Tis nothing, a private or two now and then, 

Will not count in the news of the battle 
Not an officer lost, only one of the men 

Moaning out all alone the death rattle. 

All quiet along the Potomac to night, 

Where the soldiers lay peacefully dreaming, 
Their tents in the rays of the clear autumn 
moon, 

Or the light of the watch fires are gleaming 
A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night wind, 

Through the forest leaves softly is creeping; 
While stars up above,with their glittering eyes, 

Keep guard, for the army is sleeping. 

There's only the sound of the lone sentry's 
tread, 

As he tramps from the rock to the fountain, 
And thinks of the two in the low trundle-bed, 

Far away in the cot on the mountain. 
His musket falls slack, and his face dark and 
grim, 

Grows gentle with memories tender, 
As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep — 

For their mother—may Heaven defend her. 



The moon seems to shine just as brightly as 
then, 

That night when the love yet unspoken 
Leaped up to her lips — when low murmured 
vows 

Were pledged, to be ever unbroken. 
Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, 

He dashes off tears that are welling, 
And gathers his gun closer to its place, 

As if to keep down the heart-swelling. 

He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree, 

The footstep is lagging and weary; 
Yet onward he goes thro' the broad belt ol 
light, 

Toward the shade of the forest so dreary, 
Hark ! was it the night-wind that rustl'd the 
leaves ? 

Was it moonlight so wondrously flashing? 
It looked like a rifle — Ha ! Mary, good by ! 

And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. 

All quiet along the Potomac to-night, 
No sound save the rush of the river; 

While soft falls the dew on the face of the 
dead— 
The picket's off duty forever 1 



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